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Why is Youtube both the most widely used video app and the worst video app?

• deergomoo 5y ago
  There’s no incentive to make it better. It’s not like they’re at risk of losing people to a competitor.
  • mhdhn 5y ago
    They could recruit more users to their paid version, Youtube Premium. Also, their sister app Youtube Music does compete with other audio apps like Spotify. They have the advantage of showing videos, but that advantage is heavily marred by the terrible UI of their player.
    • randomifcpfan 5y ago
      It’s the curse of cross platform development. Apple TV has a tiny user base. It’s not economical to do much custom development for it. So streaming apps tend to treat it as another “smart tv”, which means very limited features.